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Description: | A copper-alloy front plate from a composite sword/dagger chape. A close parallel for this chape can be seen on the PAS database ?? see WAW-9FCD46 ?? and is of suggested 16th to 17th century date (see de Reuck, 1991). The form of these chapes may indicate that they are from scabbards made for curving swords known as ??hangers?? (D. Williams pers. comm.).
The chape is sub-triangular in plan with an obliquely angled and scalloped upper edge. A short distance down from this upper edge, running parallel to it, is a raised ridge. The left hand side of the chape (as you look at it) is is distinctly convex, curving towards a rounded terminal knob at the bottom. The lower part of the right hand side is slightly concave. The reverse of the plate is hollow, with a lip extending down the right and left hand sides.
The chape is corroded and bent. It measures 60.5mm long, 25.6mm wide and 4.8mm thick. The weight is 15.31g. | Subjects: | Scabbard chape | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Watters, Julian - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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